Wednesday, May 17, 2017

The next several posts will profile the artists who are part of
the inaugural exhibition in the "Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop" art gallery connected to the permanent
Elizabeth Bishop exhibit in St. James Church in Great Village, N.S. Elizabeth
Bishop wrote: “Something needn’t be large to be good.” While the space for the gallery is relatively
small, we are tremendously excited about the opportunity to show the work of some of Nova Scotia’s amazing
visual artists, all of whom have a lively and expressive vision.

As mentioned in previous posts, the inaugural exhibition focuses on artists
from Colchester County. Perhaps the best known of these
artists is Joy Laking, whose studio in Portaupique,
N.S., (just up the road from Great Village),
is a destination for many locals and vistors from all over the world. Joy was
involved with the EBSNS for a number of years, in particular, she was a driving
force behind the society’s EB100 Arts Festival in August 2011 and she initiated the banner
project.

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Joy Laking

Joy Snihur Wyatt Laking was born in Owen Sound, Ontario,
in 1950.The daughter of an artist, she
graduated from the University
of Guelph with a major in
Fine Art in 1972. Since that time, she has lived and painted professionally in Nova Scotia.She has exhibited provincially, nationally
and internationally including a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova
Scotia, which was subsequently toured for a year. She is an elected member of
the Society of Canadian Artists, a founding member of PLANS (Professional
Living Artists of Nova Scotia) and she has served two terms on the Board of
Governors for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. In 2009, Joy received the Halifax
Progress Club Woman of Excellence Award and in 2012, she received the Queens
Diamond Jubilee Metal. She was the 2016 recipient of the Port Bickerton artist
residency.

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John Barnstead

I retired in 2014 after forty years of teaching Russian language and literature. I'm a past president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia.

Sandra Barry

I am a poet, independent scholar, freelance editor, and secretary of the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia.

Suzie LeBlanc

I am a professional singer who recently has become a great admirer of Elizabeth Bishop's writing. I am also fond of walking and nature. I became involved with the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary because I wanted to have her poems set to music so that I could sing them.